TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why don't "tough" and "dough" rhyme? | Arika Okrent
Spelling reformers have been advocating for changes to make English spelling more intuitive and less irregular. One example of its messiness: take the “g-h” sound from “enough,” the “o” sound from “women” and the “t-i” sound from...
TED Talks
Clay Shirky: How social media can make history
While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing...
TED Talks
Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government
The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub -- so why can’t governments? In this rousing talk Clay Shirky shows how democracies can take a lesson from the...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The evolution of the book - Julie Dreyfuss
What makes a book a book? Is it just anything that stores and communicates information? Or does it have to do with paper, binding, font, ink, its weight in your hands, the smell of the pages? To answer these questions, Julie Dreyfuss...
TED Talks
Jay Walker: My library of human imagination
Jay Walker, curator of the Library of Human Imagination, conducts a surprising show-and-tell session highlighting a few of the intriguing artifacts that backdropped the 2008 TED stage.
TED Talks
TED: My battle to expose government corruption | Heather Brooke
Our leaders need to be held accountable, says journalist Heather Brooke. And she should know: Brooke uncovered the British Parliamentary financial expenses that led to a major political scandal in 2009. She urges us to ask our leaders...
Crash Course
The Protestant Reformation: Crash Course European History
You may have noticed that the internet is terrible at religious discourse. Well, this is not a new phenomenon. In the early 16th century, the Roman Catholic church dominated Christianity in Europe, and the institution was starting to...
Crash Course
Why Early Globalization Matters: Crash Course Big History
Globalization has been in process for centuries, and has had a huge effect on Big History, and on Collective Learning. This week, Emily is investigating early globalization through three things that moved around the world and shaped...
TED Talks
Howard Rheingold: The new power of collaboration
Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group.
Curated Video
Evolution of the Alphabet | Earliest Forms to Modern Latin Script
Evolution of the Alphabet | Earliest Forms to Modern Latin Script
Curated Video
What is Common Sense?
It’s one of the most important documents in US history, but how did Thomas Paine’s 47-page pamphlet, Common Sense, turn the tide of the American Revolutionary War?
Curated Video
The Screwed-Up History of English Spelling
The English spelling system is a MESS... arguably more than any other language. How did it get this way?
PBS
When did the News Start?
We all have news cycle fatigue. If it’s not struggling to find reliable sources online, then it’s figuring out how to sift through the myriad of competing (and sometimes conflicting) headlines that roll across our TV screens, cell phones...
Sir Linkalot
Spelling Lesson 31–Even More Acrostics & “Susie’s Stories” (Sir Linkalot Time!)
Grow Your Muscles at the G Y M, and watch those weights! Find out what we are talking about in our livestreaming spelling lesson: Even More Acrostics & “Susie’s Stories” (Sir Linkalot Time!). Livestreaming on Sir Linkalot’s YouTube...
Curated Video
History of Technical Writing
A video entitled "History of Technical Writing" which explores the history of technical writing.
Hip Hughes History
Global Review: The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
Mr. Hughes spews some World History regents review. Designed for newbies and for general studies.
Vlogbrothers
We're Thinking About Facebook Wrong
Usually I'm up in the description being like, "here are a bunch of things I wasn't really able to fit in the video" but actually...turns out, if you let me go for 20 minutes, I get most of it out. OK, I guess the one insight I had...
Mazz Media
Communication Method During the Renaissance
The Renaissance was one of the most influential periods in European history. The Renaissance cultivated an intellectual and cultural revival across Europe. Visual communication played an important role in the spread of new ideas and...
Makematic
The Quill Pen
How the quill pen helped to promote literacy in North America and played a part in the founding of the nation.
PBS
How Do You Write a Bestseller? (Feat. @Lindsay Ellis)
Here on It’s Lit!, we spend a lot of time pontificating on the high canon of books: Your Shakespeares, your Tolstoys, your… erotic beast wars fanfiction. But today we’re craving something a little lighter, a little fluffier… you know,...
The Wall Street Journal
Banking On Bitcoin
Crypto.IQ co-founder Charlie Shrem speaks with WSJ cryptocurrency reporter Paul Vigna about what reality may soon look like for bitcoin.
Curated Video
Growing the Family Business, One Generation at a Time
This video is a story about the growth of Positive Promotions, a leading supplier of specialty promotional products. Nelson Taxel, the key figure behind the success of the family-run business, shares his experiences in developing the...
The March of Time
Newspaper Printing Machines
MOT 1939: PRINTING PRESS: INT Large newspaper printing machine pressmen working & reading newspapers FG. VS Printing machine spinning out newspapers some into a stack row rolling off press. Man in hat reading paper print machine BG.
Amor Sciendi
St. Peter's Bascillica Explained
A history of the largest religious structure on earth: St. Peter's Bascillica